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: updated 31st December 02015 :

My dears: since September, Brian has flitted from event to event -- often giving those humorous monologues that the general populace finds so diverting. Several of those bean-feasts and bun-fights were held in his honour; at others he played a supporting role and on one notorious occasion purchased a hat. As this record-lacking year draws to its close we can apparently look forward to a new album sometime in 2016.

Music by Brian will be featured in Michael Benson's Otherworlds, a new exhibition at London's Natural History Museum, from 22nd January 2016.

A Googlenglish translation of a 1998 review of Eno's Bonn-based Future Light-Lounge Proposal installation; page 2 is particularly evocative with its description: 'Enos voice whispers to a droning with meaning from all holes Organ what of "Mum" and produced in the area with its lounge-proposal reverently to embarrassed silence'

The Guardian reviews Brian's John Peel Lecture -- the lecture is downloadable here and as a PDF

Praise be to the following acolytes for these news items: Dario, with support from Rory Walsh, Tony Ballinger, John Emr, Richard Mills, Mal Humes, Mikkel Lentz and on rare occasions the EnoWeb NewsBot.

Brian Eno has broken his silence with For Achim, a new installation running for a few days in Berlin that pays tribute to his old Klusterkollege Roedelius (3rd-6th September, you'd better be quick). It's all part of the Roedelius Lifelines Festival. Eno also guests on Roedelius' album Imagori.

Brian Eno will break his silence on 27th September, when he gives this year's John Peel Lecture. The talk will be broadcast on BBC 6 Music (wireless) and BBC Four (televisual apparatus) and streamable for a month afterwards.

Brian Eno has broken his silence regarding the leadership election for the UK Labour Party. He supports Stop The War chum Jeremy Corbyn and will be a speaker at The Jeremy Corbyn Night on Monday 14th September.

Alas and alack! The Labour Party decides Brian must not have a vote in case he chooses the wrong candidate

The Jeremy Corbyn Night – a glittering all-star cabaret in London's vibrant West End, probably. We haven't read the publicity but sequins, showgirls and sensational surprises are bound to be on the bill if Brian's involved. You know what he's like!!!

Brian Eno will be breaking his silence in Frankfurt on October 11th, when he receives the B3 BEN honorary prize for lifetime achievement. During the Biennale, the Museum Angewandte Kunst will present My Life In Light, a special exhibition with light sculptures, objects, videos, slide installations and music. That's on 9th October.

Discreet + Oblique: The Music of Brian Eno will be performed at The Barbican, London, on 26th September. Devised by Leo Abrahams and David Coulter, the piece aims for an authentic recreation of Eno's original Discreet Music concept, and also suggests ways that it can develop musically. The piece was originally commissioned for Supersense: Festival of the Ecstatic, presented by Arts Centre Melbourne. Afterwards Laraaji will give a post-show celestial music performance too.
Brian Eno will not be breaking his silence at this event.

Channel 4's All4 streaming service has the 2002 War On Iraq discussion programme on which Brian was a panel member. He wasn't keen. Only for UK viewers (unless you have one of those naughty VPN proxy thingumajigs).

It's time for one of EnoWeb's ever-so-regular updates of all the things we missed by accident or design. Thanks for these news items should be given mainly to Dario, with support from Rory Walsh, Tony Ballinger, John Emr, Richard Mills, Tony Marshall, and occasionally EnoWeb itself.

New lamps for old! New lamps for old! (Part 2.) For the Holy Festival of Kash-Til-Ryng – also known as Record Store Day on 18th April – Warp is releasing a double vinyl LP version of My Squelchy Life. This will include a bonus track called "Rapid Eye". EnoWeb notices that the LP cover appears to have been, ahem, inspired by the cover of the bootleg version which some miscreant ripped off from Dave Bush's image donated to EnoWeb's gallery long ago.

Issue 7 of Noble Rot has a wine tasting with Brian. It's available in print, digitally (in-app purchases) and online. Brian also talks about perfumes: "I wanted to make a perfume only for use during sex... somehow, it's like an envelope of sensuality." Mustard The Tortoise: A C7 envelope, or C4?
I'm so sorry about that comment, readers, it was the first warm day of Spring today and he's a bit frisky.

Brian will participate in this year's Venice Biennale. The Sound of Creation: Paintings + Music by Beezy Bailey and Brian Eno is set to run from 7th May to 22nd November 2015, at Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello, Palazzo Pisani, San Marco, 2810 (Campo Santo Stefano), Venice, Italy.

Brian's music will appear in the film Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, to be released in the summer. It appears to be mainly old tracks although "Eno himself composed some connective tissue score elements inspired from the musical hues of those seminal records", according to the second of these Indiewire articles.

It's Cartoon Time once again, as EnoWeb rounds up a few videos and audio for your amusement.

"Shame Totem", a previously unreleased Eno piece accompanying Jennifer Jaquet's book, Is Shame Necessary? (perhaps a cousin of "2 Forms Of Anger" from Small Craft On A Milk Sea)

John Walters interviews Brian(thanks to Jason Newton) – includes footage from Contemporary Data Lounge which bafflingly has never been released (also used as the background for the Rainforest installation, also bafflingly never released)

J. Peter Schwalm performed with Eivind Aarset for NDR in March. His album Musikain will be rereleased on iTunes by Poets Club Records on 17th April with some extra tracks under the artist name Schwalm. You'll recall that Brian sings on the track "No Orders", and one of the bonus tracks is a remix of that. For EnoWeb's money, "Damé Calor" is the standout track. (Thanks to Christian Kessler.)

NDR (theirs is the second concert in this stream – if you don't want to hear Wolfram Huschke's concert, wait until the stream has loaded then skip forward to 1:02:50-ish)

Other news sources

Radiocitizen's Dark
Shark Facebook Page. EnoWeb has been the sole updater of
that page since late January 2014 owing to a problem; while we hope normal service is restored soon, it hasn't happened yet. There is also a Brian Eno Facebook Group which may need an invitation to join.